Like any other collection of short stories, some are very good and others are meh. But overall I enjoyed them. The final story about a cop who shoots a kid on a traffic stop is particularly poignant. But several were confusing and complicated in terms of plot and morals.

More from this hit noir series. Standouts for me was Edward P. Jones' "A Rich Man," which I thought you can also read in his "Aunt Hagar's Children" collection. Also Paul Laurence Dunbar's story, which was written in 1900, and still seems frighteningly relevant.